tight

Meaning

Adj

1. Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
2. Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
3. Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
4. (colloquial) Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
5. (figuratively, informal) Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
6. (derogatory, figuratively, slang, usually) Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
7. (slang) Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
8. Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
9. Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
10. Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
11. Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
12. Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
13. Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
14. Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
15. (slang) Intoxicated; drunk.
16. (slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
17. (Northern-England, slang) Mean; unfair; unkind.
18. Limited or restricted.
19. (obsolete) Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
20. (obsolete) Handy; adroit; brisk.
21. Of a player, who plays very few hands.
22. Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.
23. (US, slang) With understeer, primarily used to describe NASCAR stock cars.
24. (New-York, slang) Angry or irritated.
25. (slang, vulgar) Of a person, having a tight vagina or anus.

Adv

1. Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.
2. Soundly.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To make tight; tighten.
2. (obsolete) To make water-tight.

Synonyms

narrow

taut

tense

close

firm

stiff

tightly

stringent

close-fitting

compact

dense

rigid

crowded

cramped

closely

hard

strained

strict

miserly

snug

fast

rigorous

compressed

strong

very tight

drunk

mingy

concise

mean

tight-fitting

squeezed

plastered

secure

too tight

niggardly

tightness

densely

intimate

stingy

firmly

solid

soused

condensed

besotted

sealed

pixilated

pissed

pie-eyed

abrupt

cockeyed

Translations

serré

stretto

eng

étroit

apretado

dicht

teso

estrecho

straff

tendu

σφιχτός

nauw

fest

nauwsluitend

strak

Pronounced as (IPA)

/taɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: tight

Inherited from Old English: *þiht

Cognate with Scots: ticht

Cognate with Western Frisian: ticht

Cognate with Danish: tæt

Cognate with Icelandic: þéttur

Cognate with Norwegian: tett

Cognate with Swedish: tät

Cognate with Dutch: dicht

Cognate with German: dicht

In summary

From Middle English tight, tyght, tyȝt, tiht, variants of thight, thiht, from Old English *þiht, *þīht (attested in meteþiht), from Proto-West Germanic *þį̄ht(ī), from Proto-Germanic *þinhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *tenkt- (“dense, thick, tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, pull”).
Cognate with Scots ticht, West Frisian ticht, Danish tæt, Icelandic þéttur (“dense”), Norwegian tett, Swedish tät, Dutch dicht (“dense”), German dicht (“dense”).
The current form with t- /t/ rather than etymologically-expected th- /θ/ arose in Middle English under the influence of the etymologically-unrelated verbs tighten and tight, which come from a different Proto-Indo-European root (starting with *d- and thus regularly having t-).